News and Politics | March 21, 2008 | 4 comments

Somthing the Lord Made

source: http://www.hbo.com/films/stlm/

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SOMETHING THE LORD MADE is a moving story of men who defy the rules and start a medical revolution. Their patients are known as the "blue babies" - infants suffering from a congenital heart defect that turns them blue as they slowly suffocate.

Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) make a brilliant team. But even as they race against time to save one particular baby, the two occupy different places in society. Blalock is the white, wealthy head of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thomas is black and poor, a skilled carpenter whose dream of going to college and becoming a doctor was ruined by the Great Depression, although he was naturally gifted with the intuition and dexterity of a great surgeon.

Based on the true story of Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock. Worth watching and appropriate to race discussions we're now having toward understanding the minds and hearts of older generations.
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4 comments // Somthing the Lord Made

  • StrangE2U
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      StrangE2U  

    • I watched this film a bunch of times while ago and fell in love with it... just re-watched it again tonight (noticed it was on hbo hd on demand)... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS FILM.

      I wish I knew a way to get more people to see this... Mos Def and Alan Rickman are phenomenal in their roles. If this has been a theatrical release, it would have won an Oscar (or 5).

    • 2 years ago
  • Chique
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      Chique  

    • Thanks gilmore - I posted this so long ago with no response I'd forgotten about it. I loved the movie for the reasons you mentioned. Since then I watched and was inspired by the courage and determination in "The Great Debators".

    • 3 years ago
  • gilmore_rickman
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      gilmore_rickman  

    • This was a really great film. It not only touches on the ground-breaking blue baby cure but also the complications of segregation.
      It's another film that gives hope and confedence to all that enter the forbidden or impossible.
      It's a well-watched addition to my Alan Rickman Collection.

    • 3 years ago
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